History
the record of the most important bygone events in human history chronologically arranged, with an inquiry into their causes, and the lessons which they afford with regard to human conduct. A history may be of an institution, an invention or art gradually perfected, as, the history of shipbuilding, the history of painting; or of thought, as, the history of philosophy.
Branches of history now named separately are archæology and biography. Also a book treating of the history of any country, people, science, or art.
HIT (ancient Is), a town of Turkey in Asia, on the Euphrates, 85 miles W.
N. W. of Bagdad. It has pits of bitu-